Japan and Germany are on one side of this and want one type of standard because they are really advanced in robotics, and whatnot, and want to keep control of that market. Then on the other hand, you have China and South Korea
All of these countries are currently experiencing population crisis, so it makes sense that they are competing for influence on how the future of care will look
With Japan’s ageing society facing a predicted shortfall of 370,000 caregivers by 2025, the government wants to increase community acceptance of technology that could help fill the gap in the nursing workforce.
I wonder if something similar will happen in the US eventually if birth rates drop lower than the sustainability rate of 2.1.
"Look at the size of them, will you? The chests must be ten feet around." "That's because they're supplied with the old McGuffy gears. I've been over the insides - crummiest set you've ever seen."
The older robots being enormous in size compared to Speedy while also being less intelligent is reminiscent of how computers used to be the size of rooms but now fit into our pockets while being far more powerful.
"Now, look, let's start with the three fundamental Rules of Robotics - the three rules that are built most deeply into a robot's positronic brain."
This is similar to the rules that are programmed into AI such as ChatGPT that prevent it from generating certain things.
"Giddy-ap," yelled Donovan, and thumped his heels, spur fashion.
The comparison of these robots to horses reflects the recurring theme of robots being beasts of burden. However the robots in this story seem to be more intelligent than horses.
All our work people are Robots
This reminds me of the fear that AI will take over peoples jobs.
He began to manufacture Super-Robots. Regular giants they were. He tried to make them[18] twelve feet tall. But you wouldn’t believe what a failure they were.
This reminds me of some modern day projects that were started just to be big and flashy and future tech, even though the projects turned out to be failures or poor quality. A real world example of this is the tesla cybertruck. It was marketed as super high tech and cool when in reality it is a dangerous and unnecessary vehicle.